2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in New Mexico (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Mexico For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Communication & Media Studies is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 9th of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 68,079 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, communication and media studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $32,728 and had an average of $24,931 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 134 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,500 and $8,728 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,108 and $24,162 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality communication and media studies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the communication and media studies program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Mexico For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Mexico For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Mexico For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in New Mexico (With Aid)

#1

Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus

Portales, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$9,516 Average Net Price

$26,739 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Mexico For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Portales, New Mexico, this medium-sized public school awarded 17 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s communications students in 2019-2020.

ENMU - Main Campus also made our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Mexico” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for ENMU - Main Campus is $9,516 for New Mexico Bachelor’s Degree Communications students with aid.

Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies (With Aid)

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland.

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